Swanage

Swanage is a seaside town and common ward in the south east of Dorset, England. It is arranged at the eastern end of the Isle of Purbeck, around 6 1⁄4 miles 10 km south of Poole and 25 miles 40 km east of Dorchester. In the 2011 statistics the common ward had a populace of 9,601. Nearby are Ballard Down and Old Harry Rocks, with Studland Bay and Poole Harbor toward the north.

Inside the area are Durlston Bay and Durlston Country Park toward the south of the town. The ward additionally incorporates the territories of Herston, just toward the west of the town, and Durlston, just toward the south. The town, initially a little port and angling town, prospered in the Victorian time, when it originally turned into a huge quarrying port and later a coastline resort for the rich of the day.

Today the town remains a mainstream vacationer resort, this being the town's essential industry, with a huge number of guests going to the town amid the pinnacle summer season, drawn by the narrows' sandy shorelines and different attractions. Amid its history the straight was recorded differently as Swanawic, Swanwich and Sandwich, and just in later history as Swanage. The town is situated at the eastern end of the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site. The town contains many recorded structures and two protection territories – Swanage Conservation Area and Herston Conservation Area.